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chickenry en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

From chicken + -ry.

Meanings

1. (countable, rare) A hen house or chicken coop, a place in which chickens are reared.
   • The bio-gas could also utilize waste from piggeries, chickeneries and human beings. 1980, Jyoti K. Parikh, Energy systems and development:
   • Not "by the brook," as Halleck sings, but by the chickenry, 1857, Maria Honetcombe, “Letters from la Ruche”, in Arthur's Home Magazine:
   • The chickenry next door, which looked suspiciously small to house a thousand birds, was also a complete wreck. 1994, Samantha Weinberg, Last of the pirates: the search for Bob Denard:

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chickenry en · NOUN · etymology 2

Meanings

1. (alt-of, misspelling) Misspelling of chicanery.
   alt of chicanery
   • It is not necessary to advert in any detail to the chickenry adopted by the two Priests who cooked up this theory or the story leading thereto[…] 1988, Pingle Jaganmohan Reddy, In search of unity and secularism:
   • […]elaborate tissues of circumstantial falsehood, chickenry, perjury, forgery, are the weapons, offensive and defensive, of the people of[…] 1991, Iqbal Ansari Khan, The third eye: glimpses of the politicos:

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